Graves Art Gallery

It houses permanent displays from the city’s historic and contemporary collection of British and European art along with a programme of temporary exhibitions.

The main trends and movements are traced through works by many artists, from J. M. W. Turner, Alfred Sisley and Sir Stanley Spencer, to Helen Chadwick, Marc Quinn and Bridget Riley.

It was a state of the art facility fitted with ‘heating…by invisible panel system’, ‘artificial ventilation’, ‘synchronised electric clocks’ and five lifts.

The search for individual pieces of outstanding significance and quality characterised their vision, with works by Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman, Gwen John, C. R. W. Nevinson, Jacob Epstein, Stanley Spencer, William Roberts, Paul Nash, Christopher Wood, David Bomberg, L. S. Lowry, John Minton, Henry Moore, Keith Vaughan, Prunella Clough and Frank Auerbach purchased for the city.

Significant recent temporary exhibitions include The Blk Art Group and Andy Warhol: Late Self-Portraits.